For all the talk from San Francisco city officials about keeping families in the city, their actions sometimes tell another story. Take the city’s summer camps, which are already hard to get into: This year they don’t cover the entire summer.

The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has great camps, from the old-school campfire kind to more unusual offerings. Only in San Francisco can kids go rock climbing, skateboard, surf and learn to cook like Alice Waters in just a few short weeks.

But since this is city government, there has to be a glitch. And you know me, I’ve found it.

When the San Francisco Unified School District and the teachers union agreed in January to a very different schedule for the 2017-18 academic year, the Rec and Park summer camps were already set. The school year starts one week later than usual, on Aug. 21, and the camps all end on Aug. 11.

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Of course, fast-thinking private companies were able to offer an extra week of camp. But many of them cost as much as $500, leaving few options for low-income families who can’t fork over the equivalent of a few weeks of groceries for five days of child care. (Many of the city camps cost $147 for the week, or $210 with before and after care.)

“We understand this can be challenging for parents,” said Connie Chan, spokeswoman for Rec and Park. “Unfortunately, we were alerted about this change in January, and we plan our summer programming well in advance.”

Gentle Blythe, spokeswoman for the school district, called this “a transition year.”

“We understand that these changes may impact child care planning for families,” she said.

Other changes include canceling school for the entire Thanksgiving week and pushing winter break back a week. Blythe said the extra days off over Thanksgiving “appear well covered.” Chan said camp will be offered that week.

The city’s annual Summer Resource Fair is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park. Families can learn about all the camps available over the summer. Some offer scholarships for low-income families. Signups for the summer camps start at 10 a.m. March 18.

Phil Ginsburg, general manager of Rec and Park, said the camps will align with the school district’s summer again next year. He pointed out that the department has accommodated families by offering 475 summer camps, adding before and after care and making the online registration system easier.

“I think you’re going to be hard-pressed in any major city to find any Recreation and Park department that provides what we do,” he said.

There’s even a camp called “Surviving SF on $10 a Day.” Of course, with the way things are going in this city, last year it was called “Surviving SF on $7 a Day.” Seriously.

File this one in the thick “How is this not a law already?” folder: Supervisor Jeff Sheehy wants to make it illegal to operate bicycle chop shops and would allow police to seize bike parts found at those sidewalk eyesores.

Just about anybody who rides a bicycle in San Francisco knows the torment of having your bike stolen and spotting its parts among a pile next to a tent on the sidewalk. Sheehy said he has heard from constituents who have had as many as five bicycles stolen and can’t understand why so little is done about it.

“What this would do is allow police to seize the bike parts, clear the sidewalk and then impound them,” Sheehy said. “If people could show either by a receipt or a voluntary sworn affidavit these parts were theirs, they could get them back.”

Sheehy’s legislation, which was introduced last week and is headed for committee, would also allow police to cite the operators of the chop shops. Like we said, how is this not already on the books?

Bicycles are near and dear to Sheehy’s heart. His first job after moving to San Francisco in the late 1980s was being a bike messenger. He still boasts of the time he delivered a package from the foot of Market Street to City Hall in a mere 10 minutes. There was traffic gridlock — he was the only one moving.

It was fun seeing whom Supervisor Jeff Sheehy selected to honor at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting for Women’s History Month: Jean Robertson, the principal of Glen Park Elementary, the school that notoriously saw a first-grade class cycle through 13 teachers because of the school district’s teacher shortage.

You may recall that a first-grade class there lost its regular teacher because of a health issue and then had a string of substitutes before Robertson’s daughter, who had been working in the after-school program, stepped in.

Superintendent Myong Leigh said the daughter couldn’t stay because of nepotism concerns, even though an impartial hiring committee received only two decent applications for the job and the principal’s daughter was deemed the far better choice. So now the kids are on teacher No. 13, who had been a reading specialist at the school.

“I’m still disappointed that happened,” Sheehy said, adding that honoring Robertson was an obvious choice. “I know how hard it’s been for her, with this revolving teacher situation, and I think recognizing what great leadership looks like is important.”

In accepting the award in the board chambers, Robertson told Sheehy, “You’ve had my back for the past six weeks as we’ve been wrangling to handle our teacher shortage issue.”

Hey, if you can’t have a stable teaching staff, at least you can get a fancy certificate from City Hall.

Heather Knight is a columnist working out of City Hall and covering everything from politics to homelessness to family flight and the quirks of living in one of the most fascinating cities in the world. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof – and telling the stories of real people and their struggles.